Russell Crotty
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Los Angeles artist Russell Crotty's drawings
emerge from an extended process of observation. Using a telescope, Crotty has chronicled the changing night sky through multiple detailed drawings assembled in large books, presented individually or executed on the surface of globes as large as six feet in diameter. Crotty presents celestial bodies with scientific exactitude while evoking the power and unfathomable complexity of natural systems closer at hand. Implicitly, he contrasts these with the ever-increasing technological access to the wonders of the world that both illuminates and obscures our experience of nature. Crotty's work has received wide recognition, most notably in the Museum of Modern Art's 2002 exhibition Drawing Now: Eight Propositions, organized by Laura Hoptman, curator of the 2004 Carnegie International Exhibition.
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